Improved self-acting decanter-stopper



STATES nTnNT OFFICE.

IVI PROVED SELF-ACTING DECANTER-STOPPER.

Speciiication forming part of Letters Patent No. 55,124, dated May 29,1866.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LOUIS LOEFFLER, of East Cambridge, in the county ofMiddlesex and State ot' Massachusetts, have invented an ImprovedSelf-ActingDecanter-Stopper; and I do hereby declare the same to befully described in the following specification, and represented in theaccompanying drawings, otl which- Figure l is a top view, Fig. 2 a sideelevation, and Fig. 3 a Vertical section, of it.

My improvement has reference to those selt'- acting decanter-stopperswhich contain a ballvalve that by its weight is closed down upon itsseat when the decanter is upright, but which falls away from its seatwhen the decanter is turned down or inclined for the purpose ofdischarging mole or less ot'its fluid contents, the said seat being onthe end of a tube to extend from a cork to iit into the mouth ot' thedecanter.

My improvement has reference to the mode of keeping the ball in itsproper relation with the tube. I am aware that arched wires crossed atright angles have for this purpose been extended from the mouth ofthetube and over the ball. I am also aware that the ball has been placedwit-hin a conical mouth-piece or tube projecting beyond the valve-seat.My improvement differs from them, and therefore I lay no claim to them.Such improvement consists in a series of iin gers or long triangularprojections, a a a, arranged, at equal distances apart, around andextending from the end ot' the tube A or seat b ot the valve B, suchngers, after the ball may have been put in place on its seat, being bentover it or toward a point directly over the vertical axis of the ball,the saine being as shown in the drawings. The upper ends of the fingerswhen so bent should he some distance from the ball when on its seat, andthey should also be in the circumference of a circle of a diameter lessthan that ot the ball.

C is the part of the tube which is inserted in the cork, and D is thetlange orshoulder against which the cork abuts.

The advantage of my formation of the selfacting stopper is that itenables the stopper to be cast in one piece, with its tin gers straight,or about so, and requires little expense in iinishing the tube andapplying the ball-valve to itA What I claim as my improvement is- Theseli'-acting` ball-valve decanter-stopper as made with the series oflingers applied to the valve-seat tube, and so as to extend therefromand about the ball when in place, 'substantially in the manner ashereinbet'ore specitied.

LOUIS LOEFFLER. Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, F. P. HALE, Jr.

